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今日長難句
Between them, the five companies (Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Facebook) have spent an average of only $3.4bn a year on sub-$1bn acquisitions over the past five years—a drop in the ocean compared with their massive financial reserves, and the more than $130bn of venture capital that was invested in the US last year.
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詞彙解析
acquisition [ˌækwɪˈzɪʃn] n.收購的公司；收購
a drop in the ocean 滄海一粟，九牛一毛
reserve [rɪˈzɜːv] n.儲備（物/量）
venture capital 風險資本
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結構分析
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參考譯文
Between them, the five companies (Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Facebook) have spent an average of only $3.4bn a year on sub-$1bn acquisitions over the past five years—a drop in the ocean compared with their massive financial reserves, and the more than $130bn of venture capital that was invested in the US last year.
在過去五年裡，這五家公司（蘋果、微軟、谷歌、亞馬遜和臉書）平均每年只花費34億美元用於10億美元以下的收購——與它們龐大的財務儲備以及去年在美國投資的逾1300億美元的風險資本相比，這只是滄海一粟。
